This research aims to find out the effect of discovery learning to senior high school students’ learning motivation, concept understanding, and creative thinking and the correlation between the learning motivation, concept understanding, and creative thinking. This research is a quasi-experimental research design with non-equivalent pretest posttest control group design. Population of the research was all grade XI student, 97 students, of SMA N 1 Sentolo. The samples were 63 students as the sampel and they were devided into XI MIA 3 Class as the experimental groupand XI MIA 2 Class as the control group. The learning motivation questionnaire Likert scale was used to gain the students' learning motivation. The multiple-choice test was used to to gain the students' understanding toward the concept. The description test was used to gain the students'creative thinking. Data were analyzed using MANOVA, Independent sampels T-Test,and Pearson correlation test. The results of this research indicate that discovery learning significantly influences the students’ learning motivation, concept understanding, and creative thinking and there is a correlation between the learning motivation, concept understanding, and creative thinking.